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Using practice-led industrial/product design research to explore opportunities to support manufacturing-related enterprise in Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) countries

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posted on 2019-09-20, 14:09 authored by Mark EvansMark Evans, Timothy Whitehead
The profession of industrial/product design has the capacity to support wealth generation through a product-driven supply chain that extends across services that include manufacturing, distribution, sales and maintenance. Moving away from the more typical manufacturing approaches of developed countries, where the resources available to support designers employ advanced technologies and materials, this paper discusses an on-going UK Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project to explore ways in which industrial/product design can provide opportunities for entrepreneurship and employment in countries on the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) List and receive Overseas Development Assistance (ODA). Through practice-lad research with participants from Uganda, Kenya, Indonesia and Turkey; industrial/product design educators/researchers/practitioners shared knowledge and expertise and engaged in creative activity to translate propositions into proposals with the potential for manufacture in each of the four countries. The findings, articulated product visualizations, indicate significant potential to support manufacturing in countries in a variety of levels of economic development by adding value to the packaging of traditional foods; integrating low-cost imported components to add value to indigenous crafts and materials; producing contemporary furniture designs using materials that can be considered as traditional materials; and employing unorthodox and unexpected materials.

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School

  • Design and Creative Arts

Department

  • Design

Published in

Design Discourse on Culture and Society

Pages

57-68

Publisher

Intellect

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Rights holder

© Intellect

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This book chapter was published in the book Design Discourse on Culture and Society and is available at https://www.intellectbooks.com/design-discourse-on-culture-and-society.

Publication date

2020-03-15

Copyright date

2019

ISBN

9781789381412

Book series

Re:Research; 5

Language

  • en

Editor(s)

Gjoko Muratovski; Craig Vogel

Depositor

Dr Mark Evans

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